Fairmount, Georgia
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairmount census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30139. It lies near Ramsaeur Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle. 772 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.
On record in Fairmount
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Georgia DOT Bridge No. 129/00228/00505E, Spanning Salacoa Creek on County Road 228, Fairmountfederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Gordon County Road 220 Bridge, Spanning Pine Log Creek on County Road 220, Fairmountfederal building survey, 5 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresFairmount grew from 720 to 772 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 720 | |
| 2020 | 772 | +52 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1890 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Waleska quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Waleska quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
245 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Fairmount between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,838 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 104 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 104 |
| Debris and open burning | 99 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-GORDON-002 |
| 27 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fairmount: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funkhouser Co Quarry | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Aggregate Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| P M Tate Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| H.M. Shellhorse Property | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| L.P. Byrd Property | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Iron Deposit | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairmount in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 12 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $5,000 | A spotter reported 10 to 15 hardwood trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. The report stated that the trees were felled in a confined area and that there were other reports of trees down in the Oakman area. It appeared the storm was propagating downbursts as it moved east. There was rotation and what appeared to be a lowered cloud base. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $2,000 | The Gordon County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown onto a power line near Fairmount igniting a fire. A couple of power lines were also down northeast of Calhoun. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $1,000 | Report of tree down at Pinhook Rd and Hwy 411. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $500 | North Georgia Power company reported 3 trees on a power line. One transformer blew. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported half dollar size hail in Fairmount. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported nickel-sized hail. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported nickel-sized hail. |
| October 2005 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| December 2004 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported penny-sized hail. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The Gordon county 911 center reported dime size hail. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Fairmount | - | A storm spotter reported dime size hail 4 miles northeast of Fairmount. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported dime to golf ball size hail and large tree limbs down. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The public reported half dollar size hail. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryo | 1.8 miles | 19 | |
| Bobo | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Igo (historical) | 3.2 miles | 19 | |
| Yarbroughs Mill | 4.0 miles | 19 | |
| Ranger | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Bowls (historical) | 5.7 miles | 19 | |
| Sonoraville | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Fambro (historical) | 5.9 miles | 19 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Fairmount | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3261129 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355758. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.










